29. September 2011 · Comments Off · Categories: Techno News

The Mighty Droid 3

The Motorola Droid 3 is one of the most powerful smart phones on the market today. It’s has a 1.2GHz dual-core processor and sure to delight many professionals and students alike. Whether you just want the phone for entertainment purposes or for communicating with your employees, there is a little bit of everything for everyone included on this mobile phone. In this review of the Motorola Droid 3, we will explore some of the most interesting aspects of this phone and what makes it so phenomenal.

Keyboard
One must conclude that the slide-out QWERTY keyboard on the Motorola Droid 3 is one of the best keyboards on the market. It has an important improvement over the Droid 2 and that is it has a 5th row of keys and one is dedicated to numbers. It helps you to compose text messages much quicker than if you were to use the on-screen keyboard.

Of course, users do still have that option. If you prefer the on-screen keyboard, you will be greeted with a host of other options such as a multi-touch input method, an accelerometer sensor, and more.

Navigation
Navigation on this phone is primarily accessed through a TFT capacitive touchscreen display. The controls are sensitive to touch, so you only need to push a button once to ensure that your mobile phone will take you to the app or area that you need to be in to perform a multitude of tasks.

Form Factor
People don’t like to carry around a huge phone with them, especially if it won’t fit in their pockets. Luckily, the Droid 3 has a nice form factor that makes it neither too bulky nor too small. It measures 124mm tall, 64mm wide, 13mm deep, and has an overall weight of 167 grams with the battery. While this is larger than other mobile phones, it is still small enough to fit in your pocket comfortably.

Storage
The storage space on this phone is amazing. It already has 16GB of internal memory and 512MB of RAM. On top of that, the Droid 3 also supports a micro SD card, which can give you up to 32GB of storage space, so if you need to store pictures, videos, documents, or many text messages on your mobile phone, you needn’t worry about running out of space.

Camera
One of the best features of a mobile phone is its camera, and on this phone, it proves superior. The Motorola Droid 3 boasts an 8 megapixel camera with autofocus, touch focus, an LED flash, geotagging, face detection, video recording capabilities, and even a secondary camera for making photo or video calls. There is no reason why anyone wouldn’t appreciate the amazing qualities of this camera.

Battery Life
A rechargeable lithium-ion battery is included with the Droid 3, and its life is truly astounding. This battery can support up to 300 hours of standby time and up to 9 hours 16 minutes of talk time, making it a top competitor.

In short, there are numerous reasons why the Motorola Droid 3 is an incredible mobile phone.

Todd Rip is a tech lover and music fan. He owns www.droid3cases.net which is a site dedicated to showing the latest and greatest Droid 3 phone covers and Droid 3 accessories.

26. September 2011 · Comments Off · Categories: Techno News

Great Free Droid Apps

Ever wondered why the Motorola droid phone is the latest iPhone killer? Here are some amazingly cool applications, which are reasons enough to get your hands on one, and to wish you could get a free droid, or any free android phone, for that matter.

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Quote ProThe Droid X runs on an operational system called the Android 2.1 and is soon going to get an update to the even more amazing Android 2.2. It has a 4.3 inch HD screen and an 8MP camera which blow the competition out. It also has an OMAP 3630 1GHz central processing unit built by Texas Instruments which allows it to be the only cell phone which supports true multitasking and also makes it twice as fast as the other similar Smart Phones such as the Apple iPhone 4G, HTC Evo, and others. Although the Motorola Droid has 8GB of internal storage, which is comparable to others, it also has a MicroSD card slot which supports a MicroSD memory card with up to 32GB of memory.

So, you can have up to 40 GB of storage on your Droid X which is a lot more than what others have to offer.

Get the latest stock quotes and news while being able to get very detailed information on the stocks you’re interested in (or the ones you own). This helpful free Android app also allows you to create and track your portfolio(s). While this app isn’t going to blow anyone away by the dozens of additional features that you may or may not want, its core functionality works extremely well.

Tip Calculator by TradeFields

This is another Android app that simply isn’t going to go beyond what it’s good at. This works perfectly as a tip calculator for anyone who wants (or needs) one.

There are literally 100s of these tip calculator apps available and this one is the best. Why? For me, it has the best UI and is really foolproof. If you can dial a phone number, you can calculate everyone’s share of the 17.5% tip for the 7.56 dinner bill!

PayPal

This is a very useful free Android app for all of the 10s of millions of PayPal users worldwide. With this app, you can do all the same things you normally do on PayPal. But now, by paying for an item as soon as it’s allowable, you can help expedite the shipping process. You never know, this may not impact you at all for dozens of transactions and then the next time, you’ll get that amazing skin cream on Friday instead of having to wait till Monday! Trust me, after you’ve had this app for a while, it’s just nice to have access to PayPal 24/7.

Currency Converter

If you’re travelling abroad and want to have some peace of mind about the money conversion, you should download a free currency app. Why download just a random currency app when you can download the best of the best- for free?!? This Android app, developed by Pocketools, can provide you an extremely simple currency calculator in a very basic user interface. However, if you desire more currency information, this app can do that too: you can view currency trends over a 5 year period, graph any currency against any other, convert any currency to another (all currencies of the world are available on this app) or do just about any other thing you can think of if it involves any of the world’s currencies.

Mileage

This isn’t what you would typically think of as a finance app, right? It’s not, but it is. Most importantly, it can help you save money if you choose to dig deep into the information it provides you. It will track your vehicle’s gas consumption in a number of different ways that can be helpful if you’re trying to cut costs and your fuel usage. This app’s UI is very sleek and the data is very easy to read and interpret. It’s eerily fun and potentially a money-saving Android app!

Finance

This generic name represents the power of the developer of this Android app. It’s Google and this app provides real-time stock quotes. The UI is very solid; like most things Google, it isn’t flashy, but gets the job done nicely. If you’re a Google Finance user and you’ve loaded up a portfolio, this app will be a “game changer” as it’s fully synchronized and gives you access to everything as if you were on your home computer.

Personal Finance by PageOnce

This is a great Android app if you have many banking/credit card accounts and crave the ability to be able to stay on top of them from one easy-to-use source. This finance app is really well built and the UI is very pleasing to the eye. This is one of those apps that just keeps going. What do I mean? Well, the more you use it, the more features you’ll find and the more ideas you’ll have to utilize it! IMO, it’s a must have.

Financisto

This is another personal finance manager app. Like the other apps of this type, there are functions galore! It allows you to add many different types of accounts (checking, credit, savings- and multiple ones of each kind) into the manager, schedule and monitor recurring payments, create a budget (short term, long term or even set up a “project” which would be great for vacations) and filter what types of information you want to view during normal viewing or when checking out one of the many reports available. Amazingly, there is much more that this free Android app is capable of!

These android and droid apps are easily some of the best on the market.

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